How can I Limit Bandwith

RaisingTheBarHD

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I was looking for a way to limit the amount of bandwidth that my computer uses so that others wont be slowed down by my computers high use of bandwidth.

Is there a way to do this without having to download anything and just set it to have a limit on my pc.
 
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If you're talking LAN you can go down to 10MB in your ethernet adapter settings. If you're talking about traffic from outside your network (the internet, which I am guessing is the traffic that you're referring to) then that QoS has to be configured on the gateway. If you're using a peer-to-peer application, there is usually a throttle setting for upload and download in there someplace.

Most consumer-grade cable modems/routers don't have QoS unless it's a higher-end model.

Hope this helps :)
 


im talking about im at work and i dont want to take up a high amount of bandwidth when using the internet so i was wanting to cap the amount i use from the internet, its an Ethernet connection.
 


Browsing the web should be fairly light on bandwidth...go to a speed test site (http://www.speedtest.net/) to see what you have to work with. Even with a single T1 (About 3Mbps) I would only be concerned if you're doing heavy loads of constant file sharing or graphically intense multi-player gaming. Something like Comcast Business class is 30Mbps down and 1.5-3Mbps up.
 


we are on a T1 and getting about 3Mbps, i just was wanting to monitor my usage with browsing sites like this. I dont want to take up bandwidth by watching YouTube videos which i believe will hog up most of the bandwidth even at 360p
 


If you are on a single T1, you will only be getting a maximum of 1.5Mb/s x 1.5Mb/s up/down. No more, no less. There is the possibility that you could be on a bonded T1 (having two T1 circuits that appear as a single circuit), this would give you the 3Mb/s speeds you are seeing.

General web browsing should not be taking up much bandwidth at all. There should be very low latency as the T1 is coming off of a dedicated T3/OC1 backbone.

You could set up QoS rules, but this would require a device be placed in the network immediately after the T1 router and before any other network devices. Unless you have management of that T1 router, and you know how to set up QoS rules in a Cisco environment.
 
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